To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.

You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.

The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.

I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.